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Krista Lauer
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Community-led Monitoring (CLM). Social Justice. Advocacy. Science is real. Women’s rights are human rights. Citizen Science Lead @ ITPC. Views are my own.
Loon Gangte on cuts to global health funding for advocacy: “Lack of money should not be our excuse. We need to adapt! Funding was never the reason we started our organizations or our own activist journeys. Focus on the goal!” #GSIPA2M2025 @itpc.bsky.social @omellouk.bsky.social
May 15, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Wisdom from #AllanMaleche from #KELIN Kenya on “How We Win: Power, Vision, & Action”: Set a bold rights agenda; Organize across borders; Use all tools; Reconnect locally; Build alliances beyond health. #GSIPA2M2025 @itpc.bsky.social @solangebap.bsky.social @omellouk.bsky.social
May 15, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Day 3 of #GSIPA2M2025 - confronting challenging circumstances and building community @itpc.bsky.social @solangebap.bsky.social
May 15, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Kicking off Day 2 of the Global Summit on IP and Access to Medicines with a sobering panel on the upheaval in the global financial architecture for health. @nadrafif.bsky.social asks: time for transformation, rather than tinkering? #GSIPA2M2025 @itpc.bsky.social
May 14, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Powerful remarks by @solangebap.bsky.social opening today's Global Summit on Intellectual Property & Access to Medicines in Marrakesh #GSIPA2M2025 @itpc.bsky.social @omellouk.bsky.social @nadrafif.bsky.social @charlene-omrawo.bsky.social
May 13, 2025 at 12:48 PM
There are tea breaks, and then there are tea breaks in Marrakesh #GSIPA2M2025
May 13, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Prof. Sudip Chaudhuri, Professor (Retd) Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta: “Many good things happen not because of TRIPS, but in spite of TRIPS.” #GSIPA2M2025 @itpc.bsky.social
May 13, 2025 at 11:48 AM
“Systems never rewrite the rules in favor of the oppressed unless they are forced to.” @omellouk.bsky.social on this moment of transformation. “TRIPS is 30 but our struggle is ageless.” #GSIPA2M2025 @itpc.bsky.social
May 13, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Prof. Mohammed El Said: “Reflecting on 30 years of TRIPS agreements seems to be a drop in the ocean when we are meeting in a 1,000-year-old city… which is actually a young city for the region!” #GSIPA2M2025 @omellouk.bsky.social @itpc.bsky.social
May 13, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Loon Gangte on what got him started in the access to medicines and IP movement: “A burning candle doesn’t help the friends I’ve lost to drug use. I must DO something!” And a call to action: “Our goal is life! Human life. We need to stand up and fight back.” #GSIPA2M2025 @itpc.bsky.social
May 13, 2025 at 9:24 AM
“We are not sure what’s next. Our organizations are closing down. Poverty and politics are interfering with our lives… I never thought that after 24 years of fighting, I would need to be fighting this hard again.” Sibongile Tshabalala, TAC, on cuts to HIV response #GSIPA2M2025
May 13, 2025 at 9:10 AM
@solangebap.bsky.social not holding back in her opening remarks. “Polite asks and policy tweaks don’t cut it anymore.” “We cannot innovate our way out of injustice. We have to dismantle the systems that lead to injustice in the first place.” #GSIPA2M2025 @itpc.bsky.social @omellouk.bsky.social
May 13, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Join me for updates from the Global Summit on Intellectual Property & Access to Medicines in Marrakesh, Morocco! Opening remarks by @omellouk.bsky.social @itpc.bsky.social #GSIPA2M2025
May 13, 2025 at 8:48 AM
“People will die,” said Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi, executive director of the African Population and Health Research Center, “but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.”
U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World
Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.
www.nytimes.com
March 1, 2025 at 2:26 PM
A question I keep getting: What do you mean HIV services have stopped? Isn't there a waiver? Answer: Only 5% of partners have been told they can resume services. Timely data and reporting from @alanasharp.dataetc.org and team
www.dataetc.org
February 11, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Now online - @itpc.bsky.social's panel of global health experts discussing the current global health crisis, human rights, HIV science, development, finance and community intelligence. @solangebap.bsky.social Linda-Gail Bekker, Allan Maleche, Veriano Terto, and Harpinder Collacott.
MAKING SENSE OF THE MADNESS | Understanding the Current Crisis & Opportunity in Global Public Health
YouTube video by ITPC Global
youtu.be
February 10, 2025 at 7:59 PM
A newly released compendium of frontline testimony by civil society exposes the deadly impact of the US funding freeze on health systems in South Africa, with clinics shutting down, life-saving treatments interrupted and vulnerable communities abandoned. Read the full statement.
South Africa's HIV response in crisis as illegal US funding freeze pushes health system to the brink - Health Justice Initiative (HJI)
Download here.
healthjusticeinitiative.org.za
February 10, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Chaos is a tool. Resist by staying informed and focused. Join us Wednesday Feb 5th to discuss the current crisis in global health. Registration information below #StrongerTogether @solangebap.bsky.social @itpc.bsky.social @omellouk.bsky.social @charlene-omrawo.bsky.social
In light of the current crisis in global public health ITPC invites you to join a webinar.

The discussion will include the current global health crisis, human rights, HIV science, development, finance and community intelligence.

Register for the webinar here: shorturl.at/fpsqJ
February 2, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Starting up on BlueSky (like many others!) and rebuilding my lists. Please send recommendations for accounts I should follow!
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January 16, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Reposted by Krista Lauer
2025 will be a tough year for the fight against disinformation, anti-science, anti-vaccine and anti-public health

These books can help prepare us

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Want to better understand the growing anti-science and anti-public health movement? These books can help!
2025 promises to be a tough year for the fight against disinformation, anti-science, anti-vaccine and anti-public health. Thankfully, American physicians and scientists have published books that can h...
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January 14, 2025 at 7:57 PM